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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	judgement_n	sin_n	1,845	5	4.8807	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34348	Considerations offered to all the corporations of England well worth their observation, containing seasonable advice to them in their future elections of burgesses to serve in Parliament, merely in relation to, and so far forth only as such elections affect trade, and are, as will appear hereby, the main cause of its present great decay.		1681 (1681)	Wing C5912; ESTC R25353	8,626	8

Considerations Offered to all the CORPORATIONS OF ENGLAND Well worth their OBSERVATION Containing seasonable advice to them in their future Elections OF BURGESSES To Serve in PARLIAMENT Merely in Relation to and so far forth only as such Elections affect Trade and are as will appear hereby the main cause of its present great decay LONDON Printed for William Cademan at the Sign of the Popes-Head in the New-Exchange in the Strand 1681. CONSIDERATIONS Offered to all the CORPORATIONS OF ENGLAND Well worth their Observation containing seasonable Advice to them in their future Elections of BVRGESSES to serve in PARLIAMENT merely in relation to and so far forth only as such Elections affect Trade and are as will appear hereby the main Cause of its present Decay EXperience does sufficiently assure every Trading-man in this Kingdom that there is a great and general decay of Trade but the true Reason of this decay is known to few and they very likely who do perceive it having little or no Interest by it are little or not all concerned to remedy it divers causes are assigned by divers men according to their different Interest and Principles the Divine charges it upon the sinful lives of men for which God has brought this and threatens other yet severer Judgments and he is not altogether mistaken it being on all hands confest that for the sins of a Nation are Gods Judgments upon it but as the design of these sheets is to enquire into second and causes merely humane I shall pass over this first with this Observation only that if that were the only reason as the sins of the Nation are general and common to all Orders and Degrees of men the Judgments for those sins would be so too but here is a heavier Portion upon one part of the land then upon the rest and they who are most afflicted are not perhaps the greatest Offenders To keep therefore within my bounds and to my first purpose of humane causes that your factious Schismaticks those Enemies of God and the King who hate and mislike the Government only because they have no share in it and who fearing the pretence of Religion too stale a cheat are glad to lay hold on any are they who most cry out for the decay of Trade tho they have least reason so to do since I shall make it appear anon they are the main cause of it is visible to all men these impute that decay to the miscarriages in Government and whilst their restless Spirits which still long for the Flesh-pots of their old Egypt in which the true Israel was by them enslaved are afraid too openly to declare against the Government they do the utmost to undermine what they dare not directly assault in commending and slily insinuating the good daies of the late times the Plenty Power Riches and Reputation of their dear Commonwealth Thus labouring to create some disturbance that in the troubled waters they may fish for themselves and catch once more some share in the Government which God and Nature have not formed the King called nor their own Abilities qualified them for I come now to the true Cause which as I have already said is cheifly in and from them who most complain If Trade have not run in its old current if Manufactors of all sorts are brought so low that Workmen can scarce be paid so as to live and their Masters get bread at the same time If through this abatement of the value of Manufactures men are so far discouraged from making them that thousands of men are thereby without employ Men become averse to the breading up their Children to Trades by which they are not likely to get a Livelyhood and Tradesmen as backward in taking Youth into their service when they have not a Prospect of work enough to answer the charges of their Servants and their own Pains the great reason of all this decay is that Trade is not in that esteem it was formerly and the cause of the decrease of that esteam is plain because it has not of late years had the advantages and encouragements it once had and which without doubt by the Laws and Constitutions of the Kingdom it ought still to have These discourages and disadvantages of Trade the true causes of its decay are no less truly the effects of the undue Elections of Members to serve in Parliament in which these ill affected Gentlemen have for these last fifty years had a far greater Interest than the rest of men who had voices in Elections I call the Elections undue because I find them directly against the plain words and sense of such Statutes as direct Elections 'T is well known of late years the house of Commons has been filled with Gentlemen whose Ignorance of and unconcern for Trade has by degrees brought it to the condition it is now in and the end I propose to my self in this is to convince all Corporations that it is their duty and interest in the elections hereafter to choose such men who live and subsist by Trade and whose interests are of necessity to rise and fall as that does that it is their duty will appear from the Acts af Parliament and that it is their interest also will I hope be made pretty plain from what I shall hereafter set down 7 H. 4. Ch. 15. 11 H. 4. Ch. 1. 1 H. 5. Ch. 1. 8 H. 6. Ch. 7. 10. H. 6. Ch. 2. 23 H. 6. Ch. 15. There are several Statutes concerning Elections as you will find them set down in the Margent the first of these directs the time and manner of giving notice in the County of an Election to be the second confirms the first Fines the Sheriff who shall Act contrary to it in one hundred pounds the third I shall speak of last the fourth appoints every Knight of the Shire that shall be chosen to have forty shilling a year at least of freehold in the County where he shall be chosen and to be resident and dwelling in the same County the fift obliges every man who shall have a voice in the election of a Knight of the Shire to have likewise forty shillings a year and to be dwelling in the same County the sixth provides against false returns and appoints Penalties on the Sheriffs in that case The third which is most to the present purpose confirming former Statutes appoints what men shall be chosen Burgesses and how qualified for the Election which being so material and necessary for all men to know I have thought good to set it down in its own words the rather for that it is very short 1 H. 5. Ch. 1. First that the Statutes of the Election of Knights of the Shires to come to the Parliament be holden and kept in all points adjoyning to the same that the Knights of the Shires which from henceforth shall be chosen in every Shire be not chosen unless they be resident within the Shire where they shall be